{"id":1334,"date":"2019-08-16T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:58:21","slug":"free-shs-causing-teenage-pregnancies-ndc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/free-shs-causing-teenage-pregnancies-ndc","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS causing teenage pregnancies \u2013 NDC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),\u00a0Peter Otokunor, has said the\u00a0Free Senior High School\u00a0(SHS) policy implemented by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is causing teenage pregnancies in the various SHS across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter Boamah Otokunor<\/p>\n<p>He said the free SHS programme has increased teenage pregnancies adding that the NPP government is destroying the education system due to the government&#8217;s double track introduced in the SHS.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0FLASHBACK: I&#8217;ll build 350 SHS in my first 18 months &#8211; Nana Addo<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to recent comments made by Nana Addo regarding the Free SHS policy, Peter Otokunor said students enjoying free SHS are bitten by mosquitoes because there&#8217;s no infrastructure to accommodate them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172119.jpg 447w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172119-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172119-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Otokunor<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8220;Students enjoying free SHS are being bitten by mosquitoes because there is no school building to sit in to learn; they are getting pregnant here and there because when their track ends and they go home, they have nothing to do; that is why we were advocating for infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0NPP\u2019s huge spendings on Free SHS compromising quality education \u2013 Mahama<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Accra-based Neat FM, Otokunor feels Nana Addo and the government has lost touch with issues and the campaign promise it gave to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1336\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172045.jpg 446w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_172045-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free SHS education<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is not in touch with the reality in this country; he is completely out of touch because NDC has continuously indicated that we will review the free SHS policy. Never had we said we were going to scrap it\u2026 so if those around Akufo-Addo will not wake him up from his slumber, we will&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),\u00a0Peter Otokunor, has said the\u00a0Free Senior High School\u00a0(SHS) policy implemented by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is causing teenage pregnancies in the various SHS across the country. Peter Boamah Otokunor He said the free SHS programme has increased teenage pregnancies adding that the NPP government is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[572,776,775],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-free-shs","tag-peter-otokunor","tag-the-deputy-general-secretary-of-the-national-democratic-congress-ndc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free SHS causing teenage pregnancies \u2013 NDC\u00a0 - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/free-shs-causing-teenage-pregnancies-ndc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free SHS causing teenage pregnancies \u2013 NDC\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),\u00a0Peter Otokunor, has said the\u00a0Free Senior High School\u00a0(SHS) policy implemented by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is causing teenage pregnancies in the various SHS across the country. 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